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Friendster Pimps You Out with Fan Profiles

You no longer have to pimp your own profile to get new friends. Friendster's offering a way to do it for you with its new Fan Profiles option.

With Friendster Fan Profiles, it's taken the best tools of MySpace and Facebook and combined it to let you leverage a few new features in order to finally become popular. With your new Fan Profile, you can have an unlimited number of fan "friends" which will all be leveraged to get you new friends. So when someone joins your network of fans, all of their friends are then notified. Email alerts will go out to all of your fan "friends" every time you update your blog, or profile, add new photos or widgets.

There's also a way to automatically accept fans into your network, and send out bulk invites to everyone in your various email accounts. Friendster has even sweetened the deal by offering some on-site and newsletter promotion and web search optimization. The biggest distinction between your regular profile and a Fan Profile is the fact that your fans and your real friends will be kept separate, so you'll essentially have a profile for personal purposes, and another for promotional purposes, similar in concept to what CollectiveX has recently done with its site update.

What Freindster has done in actuality is add in all the features you should already get with a social network, and wrapped it up in a pretty box with a "Fan Profiles" label on the side. So far there are several branded Fan Profiles from bands, models, etc. including Mandy Moore, Korn, and even Ask Ninja. And be warned: once you convert your profile into a Fan Profile, it cannot be reverted back to its regular state. You'll be destined for popularity till the end of all time! ;)

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